The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-02-17
THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

Over 191 900 tons of rock were
quarried from the phosphates beds near
Charleston, S. c., last year, all but
l1,000 tons of which were shipped to
foreign points. The State receives a
royalty of one dollar a ton.
Science states that an examination
by an occulist of the eyes of 1,10O per-
sons who work by the incandescent
electric light fails to show any injurious
effects produced by that light. The arc
light may cause eye trouble if in too
close proximity.
"A German engineer named Henkels
nas invented a ventilating window-pane
which admits fresh air while preventing
draught. Each square metre of glass
contains FIVE thousand holes, which are
of a conical shape, widening toward the
inside. The new device has already
been adopted by many of the German
hospitals.
The wool produced in this country
is used almost wholly for the manfact-
ure of cloths, and very little carpet
wool is raised in the United States. We
produce annually about $4,000, 900
pounds, but the production this year
will fall short. Australian wool does
not compete with US much, as it is of a
far higher grade and is used in different
manufactures.-Ch Chicago Journal.
-"More confections are made and
sold,' says the Boston Globe, '.in the
cities of New York, Philadelphia, and
Chicago, with a combined population
little more than the single city of Paris,
than in the whole of France. In each
of these cities goods are made by the
ton, and often sold in single orders
ranging from ten to fifty barrels each.
Transactions on similar scale are un-
known in any other country in the
world"
"A new flower pot has been invented
by a lady in Arkansas. The pot has
two walls, one within the other, the
space between forming a reservoir for
water. Near the bottom of the inner
wall there are holes through which the
water flows to moisten the earth. Water
is poured in through spout fixed to the
outer wall. 1t is said that where the
water is supplied at the bottom in this
way the roots of the plants are sent
down deeper to find the moisture, and
surface roots are not so liable to be
formed.
The consumption of cotton in the
United States grew from $4,000 bales
in 1916 to over 10000 bales in 1882
and 1888, and to 2, 2,162, 900 bales in 1886.
The dates cover the cotton years, which
begin October and end September 80.
Of the amount consumed during 1886 a
fraction over 1871, 400 bales were taken
by northern spinners, against 1851, 900
taken in 1885 and 1851, 900 in 1884.
During like periods southern spinners
took respectively $4,000, $4,000, $780,.
500 bales.-Troy Times.
In the school-books of generation
still young vast tract of territory west
of the Missouri river was known as the
"Great American desert" and the man.
ner in which that supposed sterile area
has been transformed into profitable
grazing regions and has even been COW
cred with fertile farms and gardens is
one of the most remarkable achieve
ments of American enterprise during
the past decade. Eastern people who
behold with wonder the present rapid
growth of that section are even led to
believe that the settlers bring an in
creased fainfall with them and thus
overcome the arid character of the
plains, or at least that the cultivation
of the soil and the planting of trees en-
hance the supply of atmospheric moist
ure NJ T. Herald.